UNEP promotes greener BRI

As a major forum convenes in Beijing, environmentalists are optimistic that tangible outcomes on a green Belt and Road Initiative will be realized.

This comes on the backdrop of the increasing concerns that the large-scale infrastructure developments along the BRI could have significant environmental challenges.

Joyce Msuya, acting executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, or UNEP, said the need for infrastructure globally is expected to double in the next 20 years, and that infrastructure investment will come with environmental risks.